The Tax-Incentives Derby Kicks into High Gear!
The Business
KCRW
4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2009
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
From Michigan to New Mexico, the production tax incentives derby is on in a big, big way. We talk to one of the producers of Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino, which moved from Minnesota to Michigan because of incentives, and two state legislators on opposite sides of the incentives debate.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
| 0:06.4 | You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want this time. |
| 0:12.1 | Everybody thinks your business and business, really, really, all right life. |
| 0:17.9 | He doesn't clean. |
| 0:19.4 | What's with him? |
| 0:20.6 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood. |
| 0:23.6 | This week gone to business, it used to be it was directors and producers who decided where movies would be shot. |
| 0:29.5 | So when did a guy in Jefferson Parish get in on the act? |
| 0:32.7 | We'll talk to a Louisiana state legislator who's a big supporter of the financial goodies |
| 0:37.1 | that almost every state is throwing at Hollywood. And we'll talk to a legislator who's a big supporter of the financial goodies that almost every |
| 0:38.1 | state is throwing at Hollywood. And we'll talk to a legislator in Massachusetts who thinks |
| 0:42.8 | taxpayers are being soaked to pay star salaries. Plus, how tax rebates drove Clint Eastwood's |
| 0:48.8 | Grand Torino from Minnesota to Michigan. But first on the Hollywood news banter, is Spielberg finally closing the |
| 0:55.7 | DreamWorks deal? It's the business from KCRW. |
| 0:59.5 | You can imagine Hollywood everything is really driven by making money. |
| 1:04.5 | What's with him? |
| 1:05.9 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood, Hollywood. |
| 1:09.4 | I'm joined in the studio by the business producer, Matt Holtzman. Matt, what's up? |
| 1:13.0 | Well, last week, nominees for the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards were announced. |
| 1:19.1 | Yeah? |
| 1:20.2 | I don't know. I just thought we should mention it. |
| 1:22.1 | Okay. Can we move on? |
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